It seems Gianni Infant(ino) doesn't care about the climate, not when there's billions to be made.
2026 World Cup sends a "dangerous message"

PooTin is certainly a denier.

Russia's interest in Antarctic oil exposed after Ukrainian scientist's arrest.

The Antarctic Treaty's environmental protocol is clear — mining is prohibited indefinitely.

But a Russian document linked to the recent arrest of a Ukrainian scientist has raised questions about whether Russia has long-term ambitions to exploit oil reserves on the icy continent.

The three-page document, which details the allegations against the scientist, includes a statement outlining Russia's opposition to proposed marine protected areas in Antarctica.......

Well it seems that PooTin wants war with our mother earth as well right where our birthing began.

While Russia clumsily leaks intentions to exploit mineral resources in Antarctica independent of what the Antarctic Treaty prohibits; China simply builds research station after research station. Why?

For research, of course, what else? Five stations offer opportunities for higher-quality research than just two.... and once 10 or 20 Chinese research stations are in operation all over Antarctica, outstanding research results can be expected.

The storms that usually blow across Iceland and north of Scotland now smash into Southern England and Europe:


What are the effects of an Arctic ‘tug-of-war’ on Britain and Ireland’s winter weather?
wrote:

... considerable influence of Arctic sea ice on winter weather conditions with a range of outcomes influenced by a ‘tug-of-war’ between the amount of sea-ice loss relative to background global warming.

More dramatic sea-ice loss is associated with a higher rate of warming in the Arctic compared to the global average: a process known as Arctic amplification, reducing the temperature gradient between the poles and the equator. This contrast in temperature between the Arctic and lower latitudes is an important driver of the jet stream, the system that brings storms to Europe...

All this fossil fuels pollution...

There are Consequences...


Already here and NOW.


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The reality is:


Is it pointless now to fight climate change?



A very inconvenient reality?

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... And so... After the latest round of hot air...

Big Meeting #30 after too many decades...

We have agreed to:


A 2,900% Increase in Greenwash: Big Oil Targeted Brazil With Google Ads To Undermine COP30
wrote:

... digital greenwashing by major oil companies, focusing on their use of Google Ads in the months leading up to COP30...

... The oil sector’s biggest users of Google Ads saw particularly large increases:

Saudi Aramco expanded its adverts by 469.2%
TotalEnergies by 106.5%
ExxonMobil by 156.3%
BP made the biggest jump in adverts bought at 1,369.2%

... digital greenwashing...

US, Russia and Saudi Arabia create axis of obstruction as Cop30 sputters out
wrote:

More than two decades ago, the US railed against the “axis of evil”. Now ... the US finds itself grouped with unflattering company – an “axis of obstruction” that has stymied progress on the climate crisis...

... The words “fossil fuel” were not mentioned in the agreement text after fierce opposition led by Saudi Arabia...

... “an increasingly bitter conflict at the heart of global climate politics: between those who accept the scientific fact that to deal with climate change the world must wean itself off fossil fuels over the coming decades; and those who are actively resisting this in pursuit of their short-term energy interests”.

The US can now be considered in the latter group, along with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Russia...

Burning our only one planet...

What next?
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Will anything change for the better for the world and our only one planet?


The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?
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Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives...

... the US’s obsession with corn has a steep price: the fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water.

Corn is essential to the rural economy and to the world’s food supply, and researchers say the problem isn’t the corn itself. It’s how we grow it.

Corn farmers rely on heavy fertilizer use to sustain today’s high yields. And when the nitrogen in the fertilizer breaks down in the soil, it releases nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Producing nitrogen fertilizer also emits large amounts of carbon dioxide, adding to its climate footprint.

The corn and ethanol industries insist that rapid growth in ethanol...

... Industry is also pushing for ethanol-based jet fuel and higher-ethanol gasoline blends...

... corn uses more than two-thirds of all nitrogen fertilizer nationwide – making it the leading driver of agricultural nitrous oxide emissions...

... The environmental costs of corn rarely make headlines or factor into political debates. Much of the dynamic traces back to federal policy – and to the powerful corn and ethanol lobby that helped shape it...

... Many [USA farmers] plant corn year after year on the same land. The practice, called “continuous corn”, demands massive amounts of nitrogen fertilizer and drives especially high nitrous oxide emissions...

... solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol [whilst requiring just] roughly 3% of the land [compared to a corn ethanol crop].

“It’s just a terrible use of land...”

Yet another lobbying abomination...

... And our planet be damned.


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Yet more bribery and graft?...


UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says
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A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been "hijacked" by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC...

... a "dire future" for millions unless there's a rapid move away from coal, oil and gas and fossil fuel subsidies.

But at a meeting with government representatives to agree the findings, the US and allies said they could not go along with a summary of the report's conclusions.

As the scientists were unwilling to water down or change their findings, the report has now been published without the summary and without the support of governments...

So... How do we kick our Governments into accepting the Inconvenient Truth of the reality of the subsidies we are all paying to the Big Oil to kill us all in multiple deadly greedy profitable ways?...


The time is now.

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The reality of unsustainable fossil fuels and unsustainable farming practices:


‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
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... One of the biggest issues was the $45tn a year in environmental damage caused by the burning of coal, oil and gas, and the pollution and destruction of nature caused by industrial agriculture, the report said. The food system carried the largest costs, at $20tn, with transport at $13tn and fossil-fuel powered electricity at $12tn.

These costs – called "externalities" by economists – must be priced into energy and food to reflect their real price and shift consumers towards greener choices...

... Removing fossil fuel subsidies could cut emissions by a third...

So... How do we kick our Governments into accepting the Inconvenient Truth of the reality of the subsidies we are all paying to the Big Oil to kill us all in multiple deadly greedy profitable ways?...


The time is now.

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And the ongoing excuse for burning fossil fuels is:

Direct Air Capture
"
... Hence, if we want to use DAC to limit overall warming to 1.5 deg C, while emitting enough to reach 2.5 deg C, DAC would need to use something like 30% of all electricity consumed over the next 80 years.

[...]

I do think that the basic conclusion that DAC at scale would consume a significant fraction of future electricity is broadly correct. This probably suggests that it would be better to use this electrical energy to avoid these emissions, rather than using DAC to later remove what has already been emitted.
"

(My emphasis.)

In the world of physics and reality, it really is less costly to not be so inefficient about burning stuff such as fossil fuels... Once burnt, it really is costly to get that stuff un-burnt!


Is "Carbon Capture" all just a smokescreen to give the dirty old fossils the excuse to burn more and burn our planet ever more quickly?

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How crazy is this?...


Pechora: Russia's Dying Arctic Town


Big Oil moves in.

The wildlife and people spanning the area of an entire country get killed off.

Even Greenpeace underestimated the despoilment...

And the same game continues on a smaller yet vast scale across the Niger Delta, the Alberta Tar Sands, and elsewhere around our world.


... And the results are used to add pollution right around the rest of our planet.


How costly is all that?

How ridiculously crazy??


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How crazy is this?...
How costly is all that?
How ridiculously crazy??

Oil for bombs, makes perfect sense to dictators.

[transferred from the 'pandering Israeli gov' thread...]

https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/glyphosate wrote:

Glyphosate is on the Proposition 65 list because it has been identified as a carcinogen.

also from Wiggo's BBC article):

[...] while other regulatory bodies, including the US Environmental Protection Agency and European Food Safety Authority, have concluded it is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans.

This is the steadfast position of all EU regulatory bodies. They and especially the influential agriculture lobbyists from Germany and France are doing everything they can to keep this assessment unchanged... for as long as possible.

I already read the argument Glyphosate is indispensable to save the climate, because without, farmers have to cultivate their fields way more often with heavy machinery consuming lots of Diesel.

[This post is about reliable energy supply but also about CO2-free generation against continued ideological denial.]

I simply can't believe it. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a German, suddenly misuses the current Middle East crisis to change the EU's long-standing, that is the German-dominated, ideological position against nuclear power in Europe. It was her mentor, former German Chancellor Merkel who fought for this position (crucially influencing EU-wide policy decisions) against strong French opposition for more than a decade.

EU chief calls Europe shift from nuclear energy a 'strategic mistake'

"It was a strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on a reliable, affordable source of low-emission power,"

"For fossil fuels, we are completely dependent on expensive and volatile imports. [...]".

"The current Middle East crisis gives a stark reminder of the vulnerability it creates".

"We have home-grown low-carbon energy sources: nuclear and renewables."

We just finished to destroy our 14 nuclear power plants, among them the most reliable and most cost-efficient on earth (operating costs; op. hours per year) which once supplied one third of our electricity. It had been just 14 instead of the envisioned dozens as in France because of spineless politicians. If we hadn't shut them down, we wouldn't still have to burn excessive amounts of coal, lignite and gas now (when there's no sun or wind).

Physicists knew it, power plant and electrical engineers... economists as well. Just politicians did not.

Loud-mouthed activists and ideologues (payed?) spread nonsense and lies since the early 1970s (when we started to import Soviet gas, btw.). Politicians listened to them as soon as they reached a critical mass. Why? Because they don't have a spine. Chasing after public sentiment instead of governing with reason.

Will German energy policy change now? NEVER! Hell will freeze over first.

We know there's hydrogen (as a seasonal backup for 100% renewables)... It's THE miraculous super-weapon with which we will achieve final victory. No one can stop us. That's the dangerous peculiarity of the German mind.

There are decisions that politicians shouldn't be allowed to make. Energy policy is one of them. It requires competent experts who can make independent, scientifically sound decisions for decades to come, decisions that should not be questioned by a simple change of government (or a tsunami in Japan, or a sudden event in the Middle East, probabilities of which had been significant).

Into new 'territory':


Carbon dioxide levels are higher than humans have ever experienced. It could be changing our blood chemistry
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... analyzed more than two decades of US health data and discovered shifts in people’s blood chemistry that appear to mirror the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide...

... Humans evolved in an atmosphere where carbon dioxide remained fairly steady, at around 300 parts per million, or ppm. But burning fossil fuels has caused levels soar to more than 420 ppm today — higher than any point in human history...

... In humans, shorter-term exposure to carbon dioxide concentrations typically found indoors has been linked to reduced cognitive and decision-making abilities...

... as humans continue to ratchet up carbon dioxide levels, it’s increasingly important to understand the health impacts...

Two dozen states, 10 cities sue EPA over repeal of ‘endangerment’ finding central to climate fight
wrote:

Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

A rule finalized by the EPA last month revoked the 2009 endangerment finding that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare...

... “Instead of helping Americans face our new reality, the Trump administration has chosen denial, repealing critical protections that are foundational to the federal government’s response to climate change,”...

All as we ever faster sail into Terra Incognita...

Beware the Dragons!


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Meanwhile...


Trump administration to pay French company $1B to walk away from US offshore wind leases


The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy...

... a “billion-dollar bribe” to kill clean energy...


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Gone With The Wind: Trump Admin Scraps Offshore Eyesore For Fossil Fuel Development

[Remark: a questionable news source? Well, the 'quality media' always omit facts and numbers when it comes to energy policy decisions.]

[CEO of Total Energies (France)] Pouyanné said the price for electricity from the green energy farm would be $150 per megawatt per hour and required government subsidies in New York and New Jersey. Pouyanné said TotalEnergies will now focus its American investments on the most effective energy sources to help offset power demands required for Artificial Intelligence data centers, citing liquefied natural gas (LNG) and electricity as likely investments for Total.

$150 /MWh is $0.15/kWh infeed compensation. For offshore wind you need subsea cables. If far offshore, more expensive HVDC links. The transmission grid has to pay for them. So, add grid usage fees to these $0.15/kWh.

In Germany the yearly average day ahead auction for 2025 already reached €86.54/MWh ($99.95/MWh). In 2020 the average was still just a third of that: €29.51/MWh ($34.08/MWh). So, we already exceeded double the avg. U.S. prices (incl. expensive Californian ones).

Wholesale prices exceeding €50/MWh in the long term will force all energy intensive industries out of such countries (no longer competitive). Won't help the climate either. You just relocate your CO2 exhausts abroad. Short-sighted green ideology.

Trump stopped it. And I understand why he did it.

We have to do the transition from fossils to CO2 free energy sources efficiently, based on market principles; or this whole decades-long undertaking is doomed to failure; an economic disaster of unimaginable dimensions.

Auctions for offshore wind projects in Germany nowadays end with ZERO demands for infeed subsidies. LCOE of modern wind turbines prove that. Just the costs for offshore connection increasing grid costs.

Trump spent JUST $1 billion dollars to convince TotalEnergies to surrender a FLAWED contract. At assumed $100/MWh for subsidies (exceeding avg. U.S. wholesale market prices) that's the subsidies for 10 TWh of generation infeed. I don't know the wind farm dimensions. Similar projects are listed to enable ~1.3 gigawatts. (see list of offshore wind projects, e.g. New England Wind 1 and 2 (~2.6 gigawatts).

One year has 8760 hours. At an assumed 40% capacity factor (typical for offshore wind) that's 3,504 hours per year generating ~1.3 gigawatts = 4,555 GWh (~5 TWh). Won't change the political assessment much if it's just 1 gigawatts and just 20...30% capacity factor.

So, Trump convinced them to repay just the amount of TWO YEARS of infeed subsidies for them to surrender the contract . Splendid deal. TotalEnergies even agreed to reinvest that money in Texas (dirty fossils).

At an assumed 20 years service life of such an offshore-wind farm Trump saved American customers further 18 years of high subsidies (further ~9 billion dollars).